"Promoted" to a new job or position within a company or organization that is really just a lateral move. The new job/position has little or no increase or decrease in income, power, or responsibility. Often the result of organizational restructuring or for other reasons.
"Hey, I heard you got a new job!" "Nah, I just got sidemoted."
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)